noun
East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient
• Syn:
• Hypernyms: ↑millet
• Member Holonyms: ↑Eleusine, ↑genus Eleusine
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nounUsage: usually capitalized A
1. : a tall form of kafir
2. : ragi
3. : pearl millet 1
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1. a grass, Eleusine coracana, of Asia and Africa, having round fruit with a loose husk, grown as a cereal and as an ornamental.
2. See pearl millet.
[1835-45]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.